Critic Quotes

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Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came… — Dave Eggers
If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the… — Bruce Barton
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a… — Christopher McDougall
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of… — Walter Pater
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife â€” a tyrannical midwife. — Stephen Spender
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my… — Jim Harrison
Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this… — Jascha Heifetz
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and… — Clifford Geertz
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing.… — Helen Vendler
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right… — Jackie Collins
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I… — Aldous Huxley
I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what… — Milton Friedman
Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working. — Steven Pressfield
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,'… — Henry Sydnor Harrison
If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy. — Jay Maisel
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley
I have always been accused of taking the things I love â€“ football, of course, but also books and records â€“ much too seriously, and… — Nick Hornby
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and… — Jonathan Carroll

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